The coach clarifies how long it'd take him to pack his office.

Mike Shanahan’s Monday press conference only muddied already muddy waters at Redskins Park. But the embattled Washington Redskins coach did clear up one important detail about his future in the District.

On Sunday, an ESPN.com report said that Shanahan was so close to leaving the Redskins last year that he had his office packed before a wild-card playoff game against the Seattle Seahawks. (When Robert Griffin III was injured in that playoff game, the story goes, Shanahan changed his mind.)

Forgetting the obvious question about why the coach of a team on a seven-game winning streak would pack up his office before a winnable home playoff game instead of — oh, I don’t know — waiting until the day after the season ended, Shanahan clarified that the packing process wouldn’t take him long anyway. He doesn’t have that much stuff, you see.

“When I read [the ESPN story] and it talked about me cleaning out my office, it’d take me two minutes to clean out my office. I got two notebooks and I got an iPad. That would get me out of my office.”

Shanahan didn’t address questions about the source of the leak, nor did he really deny the story, but it doesn’t matter. Now we know there won’t be any cardboard box for Mike if, and when, he leaves Redskins Park.

The peanut gallery on Twitter have compared Shanahan’s Monday attitude to that of some fictional characters trying to burn bridges on their way out, like Peter from Office Space or Scarface in Half Baked, who quits his fast food job with gusto. But he’s most reminiscent of Dunder Mifflin temp Ryan Howard from The Office.

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